Example sentences of "he [is] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E 's a terrible racking cough . ’ |
| 2 | Now Sidney , 'er 'usband , 'e 's a decent bloke , but 'e 's no oil paintin' . ’ |
| 3 | 'E 's a good pair o' lungs , ’ she smiled , ‘ but 'e 's not very big . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 'E 's a good sort , is Alf , ’ said Dolly , nodding gravely . |
| 5 | ‘ Since 'e 's bin in wiv that crowd from the Tunnel , though , 'e 's a changed boy . |
| 6 | The midwife laid the little scrap in Tamar 's arms and said , ‘ 'E 's a lovely lad , Lady Lassiter. 'E 's not big , but 'e 's all the world ti grow in . ’ |
| 7 | 'E 's a fine specimen and good stock-getter and he 's unrelated ti these two . ’ |
| 8 | Mind you , 'e 's an ugly git . |
| 9 | I knew 'e would like you , because you are a wonderful girl , and 'e is a wonderful man . |
| 10 | We know that the early Church was intoxicated with the experience of the Spirit , and the comparative silence of the Gospels about him is a great credit to their historical trustworthiness in not reading back the conditions of their post resurrection situation into the days of Jesus ' life . |
| 11 | Talking to him is a strange experience : he immediately establishes a close relationship . |
| 12 | ‘ Your husband may well be decent , kind and generous to you , but all you are to him is a decorative object . |
| 13 | Macbeth 's explanation of why they must kill Banquo for him is a perfect description of the tribute that vice pays to virtue : because of That is almost too explicit in its description of the gap between false surface and his true feelings , and in its affected , forced language ( ‘ to your assistance do make love ’ ) . |
| 14 | Behind him is a gay sight . |
| 15 | The Greece that these writers evoke for him is a whole culture , a mode of life in which there is no division between material and spiritual , gods and men : |
| 16 | Smith added : ‘ Losing him is a huge blow but with Gary Stevens back in the side and Dave McPherson fit , we have plenty of experience in defence . |
| 17 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 18 | Its not fair … he s a cheating bastard . |
| 19 | I think he s a good defender who was unfortunate last year to take so much stick . |
| 20 | Said later that he s an exceptional talent and only bad luck stopped him scoring , and to keep plugging away . |
| 21 | He is a seasoned traveller as well as an agile ladder climber , often coming up to join us on the roof . |
| 22 | He is a dangerous batsman too . ’ |
| 23 | Where the person under disability wishes to be a plaintiff or applicant , before commencing proceedings , if he is a mental patient and a person is authorised by order of the Court of Protection to conduct the proceedings , then that person must file in the court office a sealed office copy of the Court of Protection 's order ( Ord 10 , r 2(a) ) . |
| 24 | He is a pizza-faced alien ! ’ |
| 25 | Modern historians are quite uncertain whether an individual of that name existed here and carried out the exploits attributed to him ; or whether he is a representative figure around whom have accreted the age-old memories of a people 's struggles to maintain inherited liberties in the face of alien subjection . |
| 26 | ( f ) Paragraph ( c ) covers cases where deception occurs before the debt is incurred , such as the accused falsely representing that he is a full-time student to obtain discount travel . |
| 27 | ‘ His goal ratio is good — and he is a superb finisher . |
| 28 | He is a superb champion . |
| 29 | He could have been the finest brain surgeon England has ever seen … even blind he is a superb concert pianist … |
| 30 | ‘ But the fact is , he is a superb player and he should be playing for Arsenal . ’ |